Review of a British Museum exhibit: "Shakespeare's London, 1612"

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"What do a reliquary set with the gouged-out eyeball of a Catholic priest, foot-high platform shoes, and a narwhal tusk have in common? The perhaps surprising answer is that they are all things that would have been known to the audience that packed the Globe Theater to see the plays of William Shakespeare 400 years ago."
- Daisy Goodwin, Newsweek, 8.6.12

See the article: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/05/shakespeare-staging-the-world-at-the-british-museum.html